China Studies: Digital Archives

Harvard-Yenching Library's collection of some 2,000 items on Manchukuo and related topics. Most postcards and maps have been digitized for open access.

Combines the postcards collections of Lafayette College, Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Harvard-Yenching Library.

Harvard-Yenching Library's digital collection of propaganda posters from Manchukuo.

抗日战争与近代中日关系文献数据平台: open access database providing books, newspapers, and magazines, archival documents, images, and audiovisual materials from the first half of the 20th century. See Database User Guides for more information.

Combines 18 databases of historical and literary documents and publications from the Qing to Rebublican periods. Produced by the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Individual registration is required, often separately for the various constituent databases.

A full-text image database providing online access to pre-World War II issues of four major government publications, namely, Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide range of information, such as official notifications, proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and reports of government departments and special committees, which are essential to students and scholars in conducting research on Hong Kong.

A series of collections of historical maps, images, and documents relating to various cities (mostly from the first half of the 20th century, though with some earlier or later materials). Cities include Beijing/Beiping, Hankou, Saigon, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tianjin, and Wenzhou.

"On this site you can find a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China." Allows searching of 60,000 individuals by name. The platform is directed by Robert Bickers and hosted by the University of Bristol.

University of Pittsburg's oral history interviews with ordinary people on memories and impressions of the Cultural Revolution.

漫画中的文化大革命：广州的讽刺宣传画1966-1977 is collection of 216 original posters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library, including Red Guards’ posters dated between 1966-1967 and images produced against the Gang of Four dated between 1976-1977.

Digital images of propaganda posters from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on the PRC.

Provided by the Center for Research Libraries, the digitized collection contains mass education materials from Hong Kong and mainland China, especially Shanghai, from 1947 to 1954.

Provides national and provincial level documents from the State Council, which oversees government (as opposed to Party) organs. Includes selected laws and regulations, white papers, statistics, ministry documents, the State Council Gazette, and official press reports. Available in English and Chinese versions. Chronological coverage and search functions are limited.

Curating 1000s of documents from Chinese and international archives, this Wilson Center database offers insights into China’s foreign policy since 1949 and its relationship to ideology, revolution, the economy, and traditional Chinese culture.

Wiki-based repository of annotated resource links, including to books, databases, websites, and reviews of physical archives.

Digital archive on China's political events from 1978-2018.

Diverse collections of documents and images on historical, cultural, and institutional topics relating to Taiwan's past and present. Available in Chinese and English (click "English" in top right corner).

Combines 18 databases of historical and literary documents and publications from the Qing to Rebublican periods. Produced by the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Individual registration is required, often separately for the various constituent databases.

Public communiques from various Republic of China (Taiwan) government departments.

Searchable by person's name or keyword, this database provides facsimiles of original documents announcing ROC governmental personnel changes from 1912 to the present. Searches for individuals also yield timelines of their career appointments.

Diverse collections of documents and images on historical, cultural, and institutional topics relating to Taiwan's past and present. Available in Chinese and English (click "English" in top right corner).

A full-text image database providing online access to pre-World War II issues of four major government publications, namely, Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide range of information, such as official notifications, proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and reports of government departments and special committees, which are essential to students and scholars in conducting research on Hong Kong.

The University of Hong Kong Libraries through its digitization projects, has opened up online access to local collections originally in print format only. Open access collections include China Through Western Eyes, Fang Yim-Fen’s Film Song Manuscripts, Flora Sinensis, Frank Fischbeck Collection, HKU School of Chinese Lecture Series, HKUL eBooks, Hong Kong and the West until 1860, Hong Kong Heritage Society Archives, Hong Kong Image Database, Hong Kong Tourism Board Collection, Music Manuscripts of LAI Cho-tin, Plague Pandemic in Manchuria, Sir John Newell Jordan, 1852-1925, HKU Fung Ping Shan Library Wooden-Fish Books, and other partnered projects.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Digital Repository is a one-stop repository for accessing all the publicly available digital content created and maintained by the CUHK Library. The Library has now built a substantial mass of millions of digital files in different areas ranging from literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion and different formats including rare/semi rare books, journal articles, correspondences and manuscripts, oracle bones, photos, and audio-visual files.

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals archives of early Chinese community in Hong Kong: Coffin Home Archives of records 1910s-1970s, Hospital Yearbooks 1873-1910 (Zheng xin lu), Monthly publications 1947-1950 , and historical photos.

Provides full-text Buddhist bibliographies, journal articles, scriptures and other sources, in 45 languages.

Lidai bao'an/Rekidai Hōan 歷代寶案 is a collection of 15th-19th century Chinese language diplomatic documents from the kingdom of Ryukyu/Liuqiu 琉球 (centered on Okinawa Island). This database is based mainly on the 15 volume edition published by the National Taiwan University, supplemented by an edition published in Okinawa. Created by National Taiwan University.

Over 600 posters used in China for Christian proselytization from the early 20th century to the early Mao era. Curated by the Center for Global Christianity & Mission.

The Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (CNRRA) was an organization administered by the Republic of China to distribute relief aid from 1945 to 1947. It was preceded by the China Mission of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), established 1943. This is a collection of over 500 images relating to its work, from the official Flickr collection of the United Nations Archives.

Based at the University of Bristol, this project "locates, digitises, and publishes online photographs of China held, largely, in private hands outside the country." Makes accessible over 20,000 photographs from private collections; many are copyrighted, but made available for research or educational purposes.

Collections of photographs taken in various parts of East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

Photographs taken in the 1920s in Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet by the botanist, explorer, and cartographer Joseph Rock; also includes maps made by Rock.

An open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides documenting the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945), and occupied Japan (1947-52). Includes images of Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria, and Indonesia.

Photographs taken by the sociologist and China scholar Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968) in China between 1908 and 1932. Subjects include urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. Most images were never published or exhibited during his lifetime.